Cosmas

Definitions

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proper n. A male given name of mostly historical use.

Etymologies

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From Latin Cosmas, from Ancient Greek Κοσμάς, from κόσμος.

Examples

At some point, though it is unclear how or why, each had a mystical awakening and came to a simultaneous and mutual decision that eventually led them to be known as Cosmas the Moneyless and Damian the Silverless.

The two most prominent defenders of a flat earth were scholars from before the Middle Ages: Lactantius in the third century and Cosmas Indicopleustes in the sixth century.36 But at the time of Columbus, the spherical shape of the earth was in no way under discussion among scientists.

Cosmas Okoli, national president of the Association for Comprehensive Empowerment of Nigerians with Disabilities, ASCEND, told Newswatch that they had to protest because of the banks increasingly inaccessibility.

As Cosmas of Prague noted in 1119 C.E., one of these biographies recorded that, "rising every night from his noble bed, with bare feet and only one chamberlain, [Wenceslas] went around to God's churches and gave alms generously to widows, orphans, those in prison and afflicted by every difficulty, so much so that he was considered, not a prince, but the father of all the wretched."